THE  GENEVA 
PRELIMINARY  MEETING 

of  the 

UNIVERSAL  RELIGIOUS 
PEACE  CONFERENCE 


SEPTEMBER,  1918 


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Delegates  to  Preliminary  Meeting  of  Universal  Peace  Congress,  Geneva,  September  12-14,  192  8, 
representing  eleven  of  World’s  living  religions. 


THE  GENEVA 
PRELIMINARY  MEETING 


of  the 

UNIVERSAL  RELIGIOUS 
PEACE  CONFERENCE 

SEPTEMBER,  192.8 


Publication  No.  6 


THE  UNIVERSAL 
RELIGIOUS  PEACE  CONFERENCE 

Executive  offices  : 70  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 


OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEE 

Dr.  Shailbr  Mathews,  Chairman 

Dean,  Divinity  School  of  the  University  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  U.  S.  A. 


Dr.  Henry  A.  Atkinson,  General  Secretary, 


70  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York,  U.  S.  A. 


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TEMPORARY  COMMITTEE  OF  ORGANIZATION 

Mmb.  Jules  Jezequel,  Christian,  France. 

Mr.  Mountfort  Mills,  Bahai,  America. 

Mr.  Julian  P.  Monod,  Christian,  France. 
Prof.  T.  Tomoeda,  Shintoist,  japan. 

Sir  Henry  Lunn,  Christian,  England. 

Dr.  W.  A.  dbSilva,  Buddhist,  ceylon. 

Baron  Philip  Van  Ebrde  von  Pallandt, 
Theosophist,  Holland. 

Mr.  Cheng  Tcheng,  Conjucian,  china. 

Mr.  Marvin  Lowenthal,  Jewish,  France. 

Dr.  Rudolf  Otto,  Christian,  Germany. 

Dr.  Jal  Dastur  C.  Pavry,  Zoroastrian,  india. 
Sir  E.  Denison  Ross,  Christian,  England. 

Publications  1,  z,  3, 4,  5,  may  be  obtained  at  70  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City 


Mr.  C.  F.  Andrews,  Christian , India. 

Pandit  J.  Chandra  Chattbrji,  Hindu , India. 
Dr.  Chbn  Huan  Chang,  Conjucian,  china. 
Mrs.  Ruth  Cranston,  Christian,  nbw  york. 
Dr.  S.  K.  Datta,  Christian,  india. 

Maulvi  A.  R.  Dard,  Moslem,  india. 

Rev.  Birger  Forrell,  Christian,  Sweden. 

Miss  Lucy  Gardner,  Christian,  England. 
Mr.  W.  Loftus  Hare,  Christian,  England. 
Chief  Rabbi  J.  H.  Hertz,  Jewish,  England. 
Prof.  Hermann  Hoffmann,  Christian, 

GERMANY. 


INTRODUCTION 

A PRELIMINARY  meeting  was  held  in  Geneva,  Switzerland, 
September  12th  to  14th,  1928,  to  determine  whether  or  not 
it  is  practical  to  issue  a call  for  a world  peace  conference  made 
up  of  representative  men  and  women  drawn  from  the  great  re- 
ligions of  humanity. 

There  were  191  delegates  present,  representing  eleven  re- 
ligious systems:  Buddhism,  Confucianism,  Christianity,  Islam, 
Shinto,  Zoroastrianism,  Bahaism,  Theosophy,  Ethical  Culture, 
Judaism  and  Hinduism. 

Those  present  agreed  with  remarkable  unanimity  that  the 
time  is  ripe  for  the  holding  of  such  a conference. 

The  addresses  without  the  designations  which  mark  them  as 
the  product  of  certain  religious  systems  are  so  much  alike  in  their 
emphasis  on  brotherhood  and  world  peace  that  one  cannot  with 
certainty  classify  the  speaker. 

It  was  agreed: 

To  call  the  world  conference. 

To  form  an  Executive  Committee  of  70  to  have  charge  of 
all  details.  A Committee  of  17  was  set  up  with  the  responsibility 
for  naming  this  Executive  Committee. 

To  form  a World  Committee  of  1,000,  which  will  consti- 
tute the  conference  when  it  meets. 

To  hold  the  conference  in  1930,  if  possible. 

To  leave  to  the  Executive  Committee  the  place  of  meeting, 
with  the  expressed  wish  that  it  be  held  somewhere  in  the  East. 

The  assembly  was  marked  by  a spirit  of  harmony  and  good- 
will that  was  extraordinary.  Sir  Henry  Lunn,  who  has  been  so 
closely  affiliated  with  meetings  of  this  kind  for  years,  stated  that 
he  had  never  been  conscious  of  higher  influences  and  a better 
spirit  than  that  which  characterized  the  discussions  and  marked 
the  addresses. 

The  preliminary  meeting  which  was  called  in  the  nature  of 
a business  session  proved  to  be  a world  conference  of  religions  in 
and  of  itself. 


Henry  A.  Atkinson. 


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The  Geneva  Meeting 


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Universal  Religious  Peace  Conference 

HEN  the  war  ended,  the  nations  expected  peace.  Treaties 


were  signed,  machinery  devised  and  all  the  varied  inter- 
ests of  humanity  enlisted  to  give  effect  to  these  treaties  and 
make  effective  the  machinery — politics,  diplomacy,  commerce, 
finance,  art,  science,  education  and  law;  all  worldly  affairs  were 
drafted.  But  peace  did  not  materialize.  Mistrust  drew  the  new 
boundaries  and  fear  kept  guard  at  frontiers  with  more  men  in 
arms,  larger  forts,  bigger  cannons,  mightier  navies  than  were  ever 
utilized  in  all  the  world’s  history.  Compromise  and  delay  blocked 
the  best  efforts  of  the  noblest  men  of  our  race.  Why  was  there 
no  peace  and  little  hope  of  peace?  Surely  men  are  not  so  stupid 
that  they  cannot  learn.  The  reason  is  that  war  breeds  those  things 
that  make  peace  impossible.  These  things  must  be  destroyed  and 
there  must  be  the  spirit  created  that  will  make  effective  the  ma- 
chinery, else  all  efforts  are  dead.  The  finest  ocean  liner  will  never 
leave  the  dock  until  the  fires  are  built  under  its  boilers.  Then  it 
sails  forth  with  a spirit  that  seems  a spark  of  the  supernatural 
and  faces  storms  and  winds  and  waves,  and  makes  with  cer- 
tainty the  port  for  which  it  is  headed.  The  churches,  temples, 
synagogues  and  shrines  of  devotion  throughout  the  world  rep- 
resent in  concrete  form  the  highest  spiritual  ideals  of  human- 
ity. Religion  is  so  nearly  universal  that  only  about  five  persons  in 
a thousand  in  all  the  earth  are  written  down  as  being  without  any 
faith.  995  out  of  every  1,000  are  adherents  of  some  one  of  the 
world’s  religious  systems.  Can  this  mighty  force  be  utilized  in 
behalf  of  universal  brotherhood  and  world  peace?  The  religions 
without  exception  have  been  mobilized  time  and  again  for  war. 
Altars  have  been  joined  to  altars  in  strife.  Cannot  these  altars  be 
joined  in  a campaign  for  international  justice,  good-will  and  the 
banishing  of  strife  and  warfare  among  the  nations?  The  issues  of 


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peace  and  war  are  the  paramount  issues  in  every  nation  on  the 
earth  at  the  present  time.  All  religions  have  praised  peace  in  one 
form  or  another,  but  what  has  been  done  heretofore  has  been 
totally  inadequate  to  the  demands  of  this  new  time.  Can  all  fol- 
lowers of  religion  join  together  for  this  noblest  aim?  This  was 
the  motive  and  the  question  that  prompted  the  conference  at 
Geneva. 

The  Inception  of  the  Plan 

The  suggestion  to  hold  an  Universal  Religious  Peace  Confer- 
ence was  acted  upon  favorably  by  the  Trustees  of  The  Church 
Peace  Union  in  1924.  This  organization,  in  its  plans  to  enlist  re- 
ligious-minded people  and  organize  them  against  war  and  for 
peace,  came  to  recognize  that  if  its  work  is  to  be  effective  it  must 
include  in  its  program  all  the  religions  of  the  world. 

Reasons 

The  conditions  which  face  humanity  today  and  threaten  the 
progress  of  the  world  seem  to  demand  for  their  amelioration  the 
promotion  of  a higher  spiritual  quality  than  can  be  secured 
through  the  appeal  to  economic,  financial  or  even  social  interests. 
Wars  are  first  fought  in  the  minds  of  the  men  who  are  respon- 
sible for  the  governments  of  the  world.  Until  the  spiritual  forces 
of  humanity  have  combined  themselves  against  the  age-long, 
brutal  system  by  which  international  disputes  are  settled,  there 
can  be  no  hope  for  a peaceful  world. 

The  Conference 

It  was  in  this  spirit  and  with  these  ideals  that  the  prelimi- 
nary meeting  convened  in  the  city  of  Geneva,  Switzerland,  Septem- 
ber 12th,  13th  and  14th,  1928  for  the  purpose  of  discussing  the 
advisability  of  holding  such  a conference,  as  well  as  devising  ways 
and  means  for  making  it  effective.  In  his  opening  speech  the 
chairman,  Dr.  Shailer  Mathews,  Dean  of  the  School  of  Divinity 
of  the  University  of  Chicago,  said:  "We  have  gathered  here  this 
morning  with  the  hope  of  marking  a step  forward  in  the  religion 


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of  international  life,  for,  as  far  as  I know,  this  is  the  first  meeting 
of  this  character  that  ever  was  held.  We  have  had  great  meetings 
of  the  representatives  of  different  faiths  but  of  a different  nature. 
We  have  gathered  today  in  the  interest  of  seeking  great  purposes: 
not  so  much  the  discussion  of  religion  as  such,  as  the  organization 
of  a common  mind  in  which  those  who  share  in  the  great  faiths 
of  the  world  might  work.” 

The  program  was  shaped  with  the  idea  of  holding  the  con- 
ference as  a business  meeting.  Three  sub-committees  were  ap- 
pointed to  deal  with  the  various  aspects  of  the  question.  One  had 
to  do  with  the  plan  for  the  conference;  the  second,  the  message 
and  program  of  the  conference;  and  the  third,  with  ways  and 
means.  Every  member  in  the  conference  enrolled  as  a member  of 
one  of  these  three  committees.  When  the  reports  were  completed, 
they  were  then  brought  before  the  meeting  and  considered  by 
the  conference  as  a whole. 

Continuing  his  speech,  Dr.  Mathews  pointed  out:  “The  ma- 
chinery of  a conference  like  this  is  only  formal;  it  has  nothing 
utopian  about  it.  Those  of  us  who  have  taken  part  in  peace  con- 
ferences have  no  illusions  about  the  difficulties  of  the  process.  It 
is  an  educational  process,  a personal  process,  for,  after  all,  human- 
ity is  made  up  of  folks  and  all  reforms  would  be  easy  if  it  were 
not  for  folks.  If  we  could  detach  ourselves  from  our  past,  we 
should,  of  course,  be  freer  than  we  are.  But  we  are  not  detach- 
able and  must  be  realistic  and  look  at  life  as  it  is.  War  must  be 
outgrown  and  such  meetings  as  these  are  intended  to  help  us  out- 
grow it.  Religion  is  certainly  one  of  the  great  controlling  factors 
in  human  life.  We  have  now  the  possibility  of  so  considering  our 
associations  that  they  shall  develop  and  emphasize  a particular 
attitude  of  mind  in  which  the  sense  of  brotherhood  shall  be  vastly 
more  effective  than  it  has  ever  been  before.  It  is  in  this  hope  that 
we  have  come  together.  It  is  an  expression  as  well  as  a hope,  it  is 
a motion  towards  co-operation  as  well  as  a hope.  Those  who  will 
be  peace-makers  must  first  learn  to  be  at  peace  with  themselves. 
We  must  be  lifted  above  the  machinery  of  our  conference.  How- 
ever different  in  our  views  we  may  be,  yet  we  are  one  in  this 
great  elemental  desire  to  move  towards  the  accomplishment  of  a 


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divine  end.  We  may  very  well  think  that  the  ends  that  we  seek 
justify  our  profound  prayer  to  our  common  God,  that  we  shall 
be  inspired  to  such  consideration  and  such  conclusions  as  may 
lift  the  world  from  its  best  mood  of  mind  to  that  higher  air 
where  men  are  no  longer  rivals  but  brothers.” 

Enrollment 

In  calling  the  meeting  the  committee  made  arrangements 
for  about  80  delegates.  So  many  accepted  and  so  many  others 
eagerly  sought  a place  in  the  conference,  that  provision  had  to  be 
made  for  a much  larger  attendance.  There  were  actually  enrolled 
185  delegates.  The  meeting  being  held  in  the  West  and  sponsored 
in  the  first  place  by  a Christian  organization,  it  was  only  natural 
that  a majority  of  the  members  should  be  Christians.  But  every 
Christian  delegate  agreed  that  the  time  has  come  when  the  work 
now  being  done  by  certain  Christian  organizations  in  behalf  of 
universal  peace  must  be  expanded  so  as  to  become  world-wide 
and  include  in  a larger  program  followers  of  all  religions.  The 
official  list  of  delegates  shows  that  there  were  adherents  of  all  the 
great  religions.  The  enrolled  members  were  divided  as  follows: 
Bahaists,  13;  Buddhists,  2;  Christians,  125,  including  representa- 
tives of  the  Roman  Catholic,  Eastern  Orthodox  and  Protestant 
communions;  Confucians,  6;  Ethical  Culture,  2;  Hindus,  6; 
Jews,  15;  Muslims,  3;  Shintoists,  3;  Sufia,  4;  Theosophists,  3; 
Universalists,  1 ; Zoroastrians,  2 ; undesignated,  6.  Had  the  confer- 
ence been  held  according  to  the  original  plan  of  having  only  80 
delegates,  the  proportionate  representation  from  each  religion 
would  have  been  a very  just  one.  There  would  have  been  26 
Christians  and  54  representatives  of  other  faiths.  As  it  was,  the 
100  additional  delegates  gave  a preponderance  of  Christians  in 
the  Assembly.  The  meetings  were  marked  with  the  finest  spirit 
of  brotherhood  and  the  addresses,  as  well  as  the  discussions  which 
are  printed  in  a separate  volume,  and  may  be  secured  through 
the  New  York  office,  evidence  a most  remarkable  degree  of  con- 
sideration and  appreciation  of  others’  opinions. 


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Agreements 

The  Conference  unanimously  agreed: 

That  a conference,  such  as  it  proposed,  shall  be  held; 

That  it  be  held  in  or  about  the  year  1930; 

That  the  place  of  meeting  be  left  to  the  wisdom  of  the  com- 
mittee, but  if  possible  it  be  held  somewhere  in  the  East; 

That  the  members  in  the  conference  shall  not  be  official  rep- 
resentatives of  the  religious  bodies,  but  shall  be  chosen  by  the 
Executive  Committee  or  by  a special  committee  to  be  appointed 
by  this  conference; 

That  the  proportionate  number  to  be  invited  for  member- 
ship shall  be  determined  by  the  Executive  Committee,  care  being 
taken  to  ensure  as  complete  a representation  as  possible  of  all  the 
religious  groups; 

That  the  theme  of  the  conference  shall  be,  "What  can  re- 
ligion contribute  to  the  establishment  of  universal  peace?”; 

That  the  conference  adopt  the  proposed  title,  "Universal 
Religious  Peace  Conference.” 

It  was  the  opinion  of  the  vast  majority  of  the  delegates,  that 
in  working  for  peace  the  conference  should  recognize  that  social 
justice  and  the  development  of  good-will  are  the  fundamental 
qualifications  for  establishing  a warless  world. 

Organization 

In  order  to  carry  out  its  purposes,  a skeleton  organization 
was  created,  consisting  of  a Committee  of  seventeen  members 
representing  all  the  faiths.  This  Committee  is  to  nominate  and 
elect  a Committee  of  Seventy,  which  will  become  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  movement.  In  the  process  of  creating  this  Ex- 
ecutive Committee,  the  "Committee  of  17”  is  simply  to  add  to 
its  own  membership.  The  Conference  unanimously  elected  Dr. 
Shailer  Mathews  as  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee  and 
Dr.  Henry  A.  Atkinson  as  the  General  Secretary.  The  "Com- 
mittee of  70”  is  charged  with  the  responsibility  of  selecting  the 
members  that  will  make  up  the  world  Committee  of  1,000.  In 
this  committee  will  be  included  a fair  proportion  of  men  and 
women  drawn  from  each  of  the  world’s  great  religions,  and  in 


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addition  a number  of  other  men  and  women  who  will  be  invited 
regardless  of  their  religious  affiliation  because  of  their  vital  in- 
terest in  good-will  among  the  nations  and  spiritual  matters. 

The  message  which  is  printed  in  this  pamphlet  represents 
the  considered  judgment,  not  only  of  the  committee  which  pre- 
pared it,  but  the  unanimous  judgment  of  the  conference  itself. 

Chief  Rabbi  Hertz 

Dr.  Joseph  A.  Hertz,  the  Chief  Rabbi  of  the  British  Em- 
pire, speaking  not  only  for  himself  but  also  for  the  Grand  Rabbi 
of  France,  said:  "I  can  conceive  of  no  more  sacred  duty  con- 
fronting the  believing  world  today  than  a full  exploration  of  the 
question:  'What  can  religion  contribute  towards  establishing  uni- 
versal peace?’;  an  explicit  and  helpful  formulation  of  the  answer, 
and  the  consequent  organization  of  the  world’s  religious  forces  in 
the  service  of  peace.  No  one  with  a human  heart  can  face  the 
thought  of  a repetition  of  the  carnage  of  the  last  war.  Shall  the 
peace  so  earnestly  hoped  for  and  prayed  for  during  those  terrible 
years  of  1914-1918  mean  a full-stop  to  all  such  diabolic  conflicts 
between  nations,  or  shall  that  peace  be  but  a semi-colon  or  a 
comma,  a mere  interlude  between  the  last  war  and  the  next?  If 
it  be  but  a mere  interlude,  the  next  war  will  surpass  in  horror  all 
the  wars  that  have  gone  before.  Our  eyes  have  at  last  been 
opened,  and  we  know  that  war  cannot  be  humanized.  It  is  not 
surprising  that,  during  the  last  decade,  men  have  been  busy  with 
the  problem — how  to  end  war,  how  to  devise  some  effective  ma- 
chinery that  shall  substitute  justice  and  good-will  in  place  of  de- 
struction and  massacre  as  instruments  for  deciding  international 
and  inter-racial  differences.  Men  and  nations  that  formerly  had 
nothing  but  derision  for  pacifist  aims  and  ideals  have  endorsed 
and  subscribed  to  the  Covenant  of  the  League  of  Nations,  which 
represents  the  moral  solidarity  and  the  collective  conscience  of 
the  peoples  who  are  the  constituent  members  of  the  League. 
That  new  attitude  of  the  peoples  toward  peace  has  found  further 
expression  in  the  treaties  of  Locarno.  More  noteworthy  still  is 
the  Kellogg  Pact.  All  the  governments  of  the  world  are  affirming 


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their  determination  to  deny  to  war  legality  or  legitimacy  among 
the  practices  of  civilized  men.  In  some  quarters,  the  signing  of 
this  Pact  is  hailed  as  a turning  point  in  history;  while  in  others 
its  terms  are  held  to  be  both  nebulous  and  devoid  of  effective 
sanction.  Whatever  be  the  verdict  of  the  future,  it  remains  a 
wonderful  moral  gesture.  Never  before  have  rulers  and  plenipo- 
tentiaries of  states  and  nations  openly  and  unequivocally  united 
in  declaring  the  outlawry  of  war.  Unique  and  epoch-making 
though  this  gesture  is,  it  remains  only  a gesture!  Of  and  by  it- 
self, the  Kellogg  Pact  will  not  end  international  hostilities.  We 
need  but  recall  the  fact  that  the  World  War  opened  while  a pre- 
decessor of  Mr.  Kellogg,  the  then  American  Secretary  of  State, 
William  J.  Bryan,  was  negotiating  similar  treaties  with  most  of 
the  governments  of  the  world.  All  covenants  and  treaties  and 
Pacts  are,  in  and  by  themselves,  mere  machinery;  and  their  prac- 
tical beneficial  results  must  remain  infinitesimal  when  compared 
with  the  hopes  they  inspire,  unless  and  until  public  opinion  in  the 
various  signatory  states  has  been  educated  and  moralized  up  to 
these  treaties,  covenants  and  pacts. 

"That  way  lies  the  infinite  service  religion  can  render  to 
stricken  humanity  today.  Walter  Pater,  in  his  great  book  dealing 
with  Roman  life,  describes  the  hero  one  day  watching  the  butch- 
eries of  the  gladiators  in  ancient  Rome.  'What  was  wanting,’  he 
thought,  'was  the  heart  that  would  make  it  impossible  to  witness 
all  this;  and  the  future  would  be  with  the  forces  which  could 
beget  that  heart.’  The  force  which  at  last  did  beget  that  heart  in 
the  Rome  of  old  was  the  ethical  religion  that  had  arisen  centuries 
before  among  the  hills  of  Palestine;  and  with  the  birth  of  that 
heart,  the  inhumanities  of  the  gladiatorial  shows  vanished  for 
evermore.  What  is  wanting  today  is  the  heart  that  shall  make  it 
as  impossible  for  civilized  men  to  resort  to  the  arbitrament  of 
wholesale  carnage  as  it  would  be  for  them  to  witness  the  butch- 
eries of  the  Roman  arena.  And,  once  again,  religion  alone  can 
create  that  new  heart.  If  it  cannot , religion  has  no  future,  for 
the  simple  reason  that  humanity  has  no  future.  Religion  can  do 
three  things.  It  can  begin  its  organized  moral  warfare  against  war 
by  showing  forth  the  illusions  of  war.  In  the  light  of  twentieth 


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century  experience,  it  is  now  seen  that  all  war,  even  a victorious 
war,  is  a calamity  to  the  people.  'Next  to  a lost  battle,’  said  the 
Duke  of  Wellington,  'nothing  is  so  saddening  as  a battle  that  has 
been  won.’  The  Great  War  ended  victoriously  for  the  Allies,  but 
it  could  not  save  these  victorious  countries  from  political  unrest 
and  could  not  even  save  their  peoples  from  impoverishment  and 
unemployment.  In  the  ecclesiastical  language  of  my  faith — the 
Hebrew  language — the  very  word  for  peace,  'Shalom’,  is  an  ar- 
raingment  of  war.  It  has  three  meanings — health,  welfare,  tran- 
quility. A world  in  which  war  is  an  ever-present  possibility  is 
not  a sound  world;  it  is  unhealthy  to  the  core.  It  cannot  secure 
the  welfare  of  its  inhabitants  and  it  lacks  tranquility.  It  is 
marked  by  the  absence  of  that  harmonious  co-operation  of  all 
human  forces  towards  ethical  and  spiritual  ends  which  leads  to 
the  Kingdom  of  God. 

"Secondly,  religion  can  emancipate  the  peoples  from  the 
hate-heritage  of  the  past  by  bringing  home  to  them  the  iniquity 
and  moral  folly  of  war.  War  is  the  oldest  of  human  passions. 
It  is  hopeless  to  attempt  to  quench  its  volcanic  fires  by  mere 
prudential  counsels  or  moral  maxims.  Morality  is  lost  in  the 
whirlwind  of  human  passions  unless,  as  Frederic  Harrison  says, 
'The  white  heat  of  religious  enthusiasm  can  prove  stronger  than 
the  red  heat  of  selfish  desire.’  Religion  can  and  must  denounce 
the  infamy  of  that  abominable  propaganda  which  fans  the  em- 
bers of  war  in  the  breast  of  peoples  by  unscrupulous  defamation 
of  neighboring  nations. 

" 'War  is  too  serious  a matter  to  be  left  to  the  soldiers,’  said 
M.  Briand.  We  agree;  but  we  would  add,  that  it  is  not  only  too 
serious  a matter  to  be  left  to  the  soldiers,  but  it  is  too  serious  a 
matter  to  be  left  to  the  politicians  or  the  journalists.  They  do 
not  realize  that  a world  nearly  ruined  by  hate  cannot  save  itself 
by  hate.  'On  the  Day  of  Judgment,’  says  a medieval  Jewish 
teacher,  'the  Holy  One,  blessed  be  He,  will  call  the  nations  to  ac- 
count for  every  violation  of  the  command  "Thou  shalt  love  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself”  of  which  they  have  been  guilty  in  their  deal- 
ings with  one  another.’  Men  and  women  everywhere,  yearning 
for  peace  more  than  watchmen  for  the  morning,  look  to  religion 


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to  proclaim  anew  the  words  of  the  Hebrew  prophet,  'Have  we 
not  all  one  Father?  Hath  not  one  God  created  us  all?  Why  do 
we  deal  treacherously  every  man  against  his  brother?’ 

"The  problem,  therefore,  of  building  up  a civilized  public 
opinion  on  war  and  peace  is  a world  problem,  and  only  the  united 
effort  of  all  the  religions  of  mankind  can  hope  successfully  to 
grapple  with  that  problem.  This  Religious  Peace  Conference  is 
distinguished  from  all  other  such  conferences  in  that  it  aims  to 
bring  together  all  the  great  living  religions  in  this  divine  en- 
deavor.” 


Maulvi  Dard  (Muslim) 

Maulvi  A.  R.  Dard  a Muslim  of  India,  commenced  his 
address  with  a prayer  in  Arabic:  "We  should  worship  God  alone 
who  is  Love.”  Then  he  said,  "I  thank  God  for  having  been  given 
the  opportunity  of  attending  this  Conference.  The  Holy  Quran 
prophesied  1300  years  ago  that  a time  was  to  come  when  such 
conferences  on  religion  would  be  held,  and  it  is  a great  pleasure 
for  me  to  see  that  the  same  Word  of  God  is  being  fulfilled  now 
in  a wonderful  manner.  I must  congratulate  the  convenors  of 
this  Conference  on  their  having  been  selected  to  be  the  instru- 
ments through  which  this  prophecy  should  be  fulfilled. 

"The  very  word  Islam,  by  which  our  faith  is  known,  means 
peace.  The  name  of  our  God  is  peace.  Our  daily  Muslim  greet- 
ing to  one  another,  here  and  hereafter,  is  'Peace  be  on  you.’  A 
Muslim  is  one,  says  the  founder  of  Islam,  who  brings  about  and 
helps  peace  among  mankind  with  all  that  lies  in  his  power.  The 
heaven  promised  to  Muslims  in  the  next  world  is  an  abode  of 
peace.  Hence  it  is  the  sacred  duty  of  all  the  Muslims  of  the 
world,  which  number  about  23  5 millions,  to  help  and  welcome 
the  convening  of  this  Religious  Peace  Conference.  Islam,  more- 
over, is  an  international  religion.  It  transcends  all  barriers  of 
caste,  color  and  country.  Muslims  from  all  parts  of  the  world 
gather  together  every  year  at  its  birthplace  and  pay  homage  to 
the  God  of  Abraham,  Moses  and  Jesus  and  of  all  the  world.  A 
king  kneels  humbly  by  the  side  of  a beggar  and  a white  man 


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prostrates  with  a black  man,  for  before  God  all  are  equal.  After 
all  we  are  all  members  of  one  and  the  same  human  family  and 
our  common  denominator  is  God  Himself.  Let  us,  therefore, 
work  for  peace  and  let  us  not  be  satisfied  unless  and  until  it  is 
fully  realized. 

"The  sphere  of  politics  is  too  narrow  for  the  growing  mag- 
nitude of  the  world.  Politics  imply  compulsion  in  one  form  or 
another.  It  is  no  good  compelling  people  from  without.  All 
such  efforts  are  bound  to  result  in  failure.  The  political  atmos- 
phere of  the  world  today  seems  to  be  surcharged  with  mistrust 
and  suspicion  and  the  great  cauldron  is  seething  with  discontent 
and  dissatisfaction.  Side  by  side  with  the  signing  of  the  peace 
pacts  preparations  are  secretly  made  by  all  nations  for  war.  The 
deadliest  weapons  are  invented  for  destruction.  Religion  has 
often  been  made  a tool  for  the  furtherance  of  political  and  eco- 
nomic ends.  Religious  differences  themselves  have  in  the  past 
been  the  cause  of  much  ill  feeling  and  bitterness  between  peoples 
and  nations.  People  have  been  ignoring,  depreciating  and  attack- 
ing faiths  other  than  their  own,  but  never  before  in  the  history  of 
the  world  has  there  been  a determined  attempt  such  as  this  to 
take  a distinctly  different  attitude  and  bring  about  definite  co- 
operation between  groups  of  religions  for  the  purpose  of  serving 
the  humanity  of  all  the  world.  Now  is  the  time  to  come  together 
and  make  a definite  advance.  Religion  should  set  its  own  house 
in  order.  How  can  Moses  be  a Prince  of  peace,  how  can  Mo- 
hammad be  a Prince  of  peace,  how  can  Jesus  be  a Prince  of  peace, 
how  can  Krishna  be  a Prince  of  peace,  if  we  all  continue  to 
wrangle  over  our  petty  differences?  Let  us  be  reconciled  to  one 
another — not  in  mere  tolerance,  but  love.  The  further  we  go 
from  one  another,  the  greater  will  be  our  distance  from  our 
Heavenly  Father.  Let  us  therefore  come  together  and  approach 
the  centre  of  our  faith,  each  in  his  own  way,  and  as  we  come  to- 
gether the  nearer  we  will  be  to  God  just  in  proportion  as  we  are 
near  to  each  other.  The  world  needs  peace;  it  is  crying  out  again 
for  a Prince  of  Peace.  Let  us  listen  to  the  Divine  call  and  let  us 
start  our  work  together.  May  God  help  us.” 


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Shinto 

Prof.  T.  Tomoeda,  representing  the  viewpoint  of  the 
Shintoists  of  Japan  said:  "I  have  the  great  honor  to  come  all  the 
way  from  Japan  to  be  present  at  this  conference  and  present 
the  greetings  of  the  Japan  Religious  Congress,  which  has  en- 
trusted this  mission  to  me.  This  Congress  is  seeking  the  things 
that  relate  to  our  program  here.  If  we  look  at  the  world  situa- 
tion today  I am  sure  we  must  recognize  that  our  hopes  are  far 
from  being  realized.  Even  the  last  world  conflagration  caused 
by  world  insecurity,  with  its  terrifying  results  of  misery  and 
destruction,  was  unable  to  bring  security  to  humanity.  To  my 
mind  the  League  of  Nations  is  doing  the  most  important  inter- 
national work  which  has  ever  been  done  in  the  cause  of  human- 
ity. It  is  seeking  to  cure  the  ills  that  affect  the  nations  of  the 
world  today.  The  real  germ  of  the  evil,  it  seems  to  me,  can  be 
traced  to  the  excess  of  materialism.  In  other  words  the  process  is 
going  on  until  there  is  almost  a complete  mechanization  of  the 
human  soul.  The  way  of  salvation  from  this  excess  of  material- 
ism and  mechanization  of  the  human  soul  must  be  sought  in  an 
earnest  endeavor  to  understand,  and  through  appreciation  of 
character,  mutually  to  love  and  respect  each  other  and  live  a life 
of  mutual  co-operation. 

"Walter  Rathenau,  one  of  the  most  far-sighted  states- 
men and  philosophers  that  Germany  has  ever  had  in  our  country, 
once  wrote:  'We  are  not  here  for  the  sake  of  possessions,  nor  for 
the  sake  of  power,  nor  for  the  sake  of  happiness;  we  are  here  that 
we  may  elucidate  the  divine  elements  in  the  human  spirit.’  This, 
I think,  is  the  real  mission  for  which  this  Conference  stands.” 

Catholic  Christianity 

The  Honorable  Marc  Sagnier  of  Paris  gave  a valuable 
expose  of  the  attitude  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church  in  behalf 
of  peace  and  some  of  the  things  accomplished.  He  quoted  from 
the  great  documents  that  have  been  issued  from  time  to  time: 
"Pope  Pius  XI,  at  the  time  of  the  memorable  conference  at 
Genoa,  in  a letter  which  he  wrote  to  the  Archbishop  of  Genoa, 
expressed  himself  thus:  'The  security  of  nations  does  not  repose 


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on  a forest  of  bayonets  but  on  the  confidence  and  the  mutual 
friendship  of  peoples.’  If  we  will  recall  history  we  will  see  that 
Christianity  has  done  much  for  peace;  that  it  has  tried  to  educate 
barbarous  customs  and  get  rid  of  the  brutality  of  our  ancestors. 
At  one  time  the  church  was  a kind  of  society  of  nations.  Why  is 
it  indispensable  to  make  an  appeal  to  all  the  moral  forces  and  all 
the  religious  forces  in  favor  of  peace?  If  men  are  truly  moral,  if 
they  have  truly  a deep  comprehension  of  the  religious  spirit, 
peace  will  be  possible  in  the  world.  It  is  to  bring  this  about  that 
we  must  labor.  It  is  absolutely  necessary  and  indispensable — this 
task  of  ours.  We  have  not  the  right  to  curse  war  and  to  praise 
peace,  unless  we  are  resolved  to  do  everything  in  our  power  and 
make  every  personal  sacrifice  to  realize  peace  in  the  world.” 

India 

Mr.  C.  F.  Andrews  of  India,  said:  “Peace  we  feel  must 
come  with  justice,  must  come  with  equality,  racial  equality,  and 
we  ask  this  Conference  not  merely  to  deal  with  peace  in  theory, 
not  merely  from  the  point  of  view  of  expediency,  but  to  deal 
with  the  causes  which  underlie  the  bitterness  of  the  world  today 
— the  bitterness  which  the  East  is  feeling  today  through  racial 
inequality.  This  conference  must  enlarge  its  program  sufficiently 
to  make  the  great  word  peace,  which  is  the  greatest  word  in 
every  Indian  language,  synonymous  with  righteousness,  justice, 
brotherhood  and  good-will  among  mankind.” 

Confucianism 

Dr.  Chen  Huan  Chang,  speaking  as  a Confucian  of 
China,  said:  "Confucianism  teaches  love  as  the  foundation  of 
everything.  Next  to  love  is  justice  and  righteousness.  Universal 
peace  was  the  goal  of  Confucius.  To  illustrate  his  ideals,  he 
divided  the  periods  of  history  mentioned  in  his  book  'The  Spring 
and  Autumn’  into  three  stages;  namely,  the  Stage  of  Disorder, 
the  Advancement  of  Peace,  and  the  Perfect  Peace.  In  the  6th 
year  of  Confucius,  546  b.c.,  China  had  an  international  confer- 
ence for  disarmament.  This  conference  consisted  of  ten  leading 
nations.  It  was  the  largest  organization  working  successfully  for 


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world  peace  in  the  early  history  of  mankind.  The  result  of  that 
gathering  banished  all  wars  for  eight  years.  If  we  would  have 
peace  in  the  world  we  must  first  pay  attention  to  the  hearts  that 
are  within  us;  otherwise  movements  for  world  peace  are  bound 
to  fail. 

"Human  nature  is  instinctively  good;  but  it  is  imperfect. 
If  we  want  to  have  world  peace,  the  youth  should  be  educated 
accordingly.  All  religions  of  the  world  should  be  peace-makers. 
Politics  can  govern  only  the  bodies  of  men,  but  religions  govern 
their  souls.  A set  of  principles  of  any  religion,  if  practiced,  can 
make  the  world  peaceful.  How  much  more  we  can  accomplish  if 
all  religions  join  together  to  bring  about  world  peace.  Hereafter, 
we  must  join  hands  in  a religious  spirit.  With  such  co-operation, 
world  peace  must  come.” 

The  Mass  Meeting 

At  the  mass  meeting  held  in  Victoria  Hall,  September  12th, 
attended  by  almost  two  thousand  people,  Dr.  Fridtjof  Nansen, 
known  throughout  the  world  as  an  intrepid  explorer  and  loved 
everywhere  because  of  his  great  humanitarian  efforts,  in  opening 
the  meeting  as  the  presiding  officer  said:  "I  consider  it  a great 
honor  to  be  asked  to  preside  at  this  meeting.  It  is  a great  sign  of 
hope  for  the  future  that  representatives  of  so  many  different  re- 
ligions are  met  to  discuss  what  can  be  done  to  establish  and  to 
safeguard  universal  peace.  We  have  indeed  reason  to  make  all 
efforts  to  safeguard  that  peace  after  the  experiences  which  we 
have  all  of  us  gone  through  during  those  terrible  never-to-be- 
forgotten  four  years  of  war.  Disarmament  is  an  important  ques- 
tion for  safe-guarding  peace,  but  physical  disarmament  is  per- 
haps after  all  not  quite  so  important  as  the  disarmament  of 
minds.  The  machinery  of  peace  must  have  behind  it  the  spirit  of 
peace  or  it  will  be  of  no  use.  Therefore  the  great  work  to  be 
done  by  all  of  us  who  wish  to  do  our  share  in  the  work  for  peace 
is  to  help  in  the  education  of  the  young  people  to  understand 
what  peace  is  and  what  brotherhood  is  and  what  it  is  to  love  your 
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"When  we  think  of  the  history  we  learnt  in  our  childhood 
it  must  strike  many  of  us  that  the  moral  that  was  taught  through 
that  history  was  often  of  a very  strange  kind.  In  your  religious 
teaching,  in  your  ethical  education  you  learned  that  to  steal,  to 
rob  and  to  lie  were  great  crimes,  and  if  you  killed  you  would  be 
put  in  prison  and  perhaps  lose  your  own  life.  But  if  you  did  all 
these  things  for  a nation  it  was  no  crime  at  all,  but  a virtue.  If 
you  lied,  tried  to  cheat,  tried  to  rob,  tried  to  kill  in  order  to  do 
something  good  for  your  nation,  it  was  a great  thing  and  you 
were  considered  a great  patriot  and  a great  man.  This  double 
moral  standard  is  one  of  the  things  that  I am  sure  has  to  be  got 
rid  of,  if  a real  betterment  of  the  world  is  going  to  come,  and 
here  the  teachers  of  the  people  in  the  various  religions  have  a 
great  mission  indeed.  After  all,  the  future  peace  of  the  world 
depends  on  the  spirit  that  is  given  to  the  growing  generations  by 
their  teachers,  by  their  religion,  by  their  ethics,  by  their  ideals. 
Let  us  hope  that  meetings  like  this,  where  all  religions  meet  to 
discuss  these  most  important  questions  for  the  whole  future  of 
humanity,  will  strengthen  the  feeling  of  brotherhood  between 
nations,  between  all  peoples,  between  all  classes  of  the  peoples 
and  will  safeguard  the  future,  the  peace  of  the  world  and  the 
culture  of  humanity.” 

An  Explorer  and  Peace 

Sir  Francis  Younghusband,  also  a great  explorer  and  a 
great  humanitarian  was  introduced  by  Dr.  Nansen  in  these 
words:  Sir  Francis’  name  is  so  familiar  to  you  that  he  needs  no 
introduction  of  mine.  He  has  been  a great  soldier,  he  has  been  a 
great  explorer,  and  now  he  is  working  for  peace.  It  was  a 
moment  filled  with  dramatic  interest  when  one  great  world 
figure,  Dr.  Nansen,  called  on  his  fellow-worker  in  the  same  field 
to  speak  on  this  subject  that  is  so  near  to  the  hearts  of  them  both. 

Sir  Francis  Younghusband  said:  "I  consider  it  a great 
honor  to  be  speaking  here  under  the  Chairmanship  of  a fellow- 
explorer,  whose  work  I as  an  explorer  can  perhaps  more  ade- 
quately appreciate  than  most  of  you  here.  We  explorers  together 
are  now  engaged  on  the  great  work  of  peace.  I was  a military 


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officer  and  for  years  was  employed  on  the  Indian  frontier  in  the 
political  and  diplomatic  work  of  keeping  peace  among  impulsive 
and  warlike  people.  Here  I gained  my  experience  in  the  most 
practically  necessary  and  business-like  art  of  preserving  peace. 
And  I gained  it  under  conditions  so  tense  that  if  I made  a slip  it 
would  mean  not  only  the  loss  of  my  own  life  but  would  involve 
my  government  in  that  which  they  hate  most  of  all,  a costly 
and  unproductive  military  expedition.  I had  therefore  to  be 
acutely  sensitive  to  the  feelings  of  those  amongst  whom  I worked. 
I must  arouse  no  unnecessary  animosity  and  I must  if  possible 
attach  the  people  to  me.  And  I soon  became  aware  that  what 
these  frontier  peoples  care  most  about,  what  they  feel  most  of 
all  is  religion  and  in  that  respect  they  are  like  all  other  peoples  in 
the  East  whom  I have  met.  Respect  religion,  be  interested  in  re- 
ligion and  respect  your  own  religion  and  you  can  work  together 
and  make  the  foundation  of  peace.  That  was  my  experience  and 
it  is  because  I believe  in  the  practical  value  of  religion  for  the 
preservation  of  peace  that  I accept  the  invitation  to  address  you 
here.” 

As  a practical  suggestion,  Sir  Francis  proposed  the  use  of 
the  religious  drama  as  a vehicle  for  carrying  the  message  of  peace 
to  all  the  people,  recognizing  that  religion  can  function  at  its 
best  only  when  it  energizes  and  enthuses  the  life  and  spirit  of  all 
the  people  in  all  communities.  The  community  is  made  up  of 
units,  the  communities  make  up  the  nations,  the  nations  make  up 
the  world.  Religion  begins  with  the  individual  and  must  be  made 
to  reach  out  in  its  influence  and  its  help  to  the  widest  circle  of 
human  affairs. 

Mr.  Yusuf  Ali 

Mr.  Yusuf  Ali,  a Muslim  of  India  said:  "I  represent  my 
government  in  the  League  Assembly  and  it  is  my  privilege  to  help 
men  of  all  nations  in  devising  plans  for  the  preparation  for  peace. 
But  I feel  that  peace  has  many  meanings  and  the  preparation  for 
peace  has  many  aspects  and  the  one  which  appeals  to  us  most  in 
this  hall,  is  the  one  that  will  probably  be  calculated  to  reach  the 
innermost  hearts  and  souls  of  the  people.  By  religion  I do  not 


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understand  the  performing  of  a few  rites  and  ceremonies.  These 
differ  amongst  different  people  according  to  the  times,  the  climes, 
the  countries,  the  social  habits,  traditions,  etc.  I understand  by  re- 
ligion something  infinitely  more.  These  rites  and  ceremonies  may 
be  useful  as  the  expression  of  temporary  needs  which  our  physical 
being  demands,  but  until  we  get  above  them,  do  something 
where,  you  and  I and  all  the  peoples  of  the  world  can  stand  on  a 
common  platform  and  feel  that  we  are  all  brothers  and  sisters,  all 
creatures  of  God  for  whose  will  we  have  to  bend  our  will,  until 
we  do  that,  until  we  realize  the  life  that  is  within  us,  we  may  be 
sure  that  peace  will  be  neither  complete  nor  lasting.  It  is  for  this 
reason  that  I warmly  welcome  the  idea  of  an  organization  which 
shall  appeal  to  religion  itself;  religion  takes  many  forms.  To  my 
mind  all  these  different  forms  lead  to  the  one  great  spiritual 
truth  that  we  are  all  children  of  one  great  Father  who  created  us 
and  from  whom  alone  we  can  derive  our  strength  to  live  the  life 
that  He  intends  us  to  live:  the  life  of  holiness,  the  life  of  peace, 
the  life  of  perfect  understanding  with  all  those  with  whom  we 
come  into  contact.  Faith  is  a much  bigger  factor  in  our  lives 
than  we  sometimes  imagine.” 

Ethical  Culture 

Dr.  Alfred  Martin,  of  the  Ethical  Culture  movement, 
made  a strong  plea  for  appreciation.  "Forbearance  of  one 
another’s  views,”  he  said,  "is  not  enough,  because  forbearance 
means  the  unwilling  consent  to  have  other  people  hold  opinions 
different  from  one’s  own.  Nor  even  is  tolerance  enough.  While 
tolerance  means  the  willing  consent  to  have  other  people  hold 
opinions  different  from  one’s  own,  tolerance  implies  a measure  of 
concession.  We  tolerate  what  we  cannot  help,  but  would  put  out 
of  the  way  if  we  could.  Tolerance  has  an  air  of  patronizing  con- 
descension about  it  that  is  irresistibly  spurned.  It  does  not  mean 
or  represent  the  acme  of  religious  endeavor.  It  is  not  what  a dis- 
tinguished divine  once  called  it,  the  loveliest  flower  on  the  rose- 
bush of  liberalism.  Lovelier  by  far  is  appreciation  which,  while 
free  from  the  blemish  that  mars  the  beauty  of  tolerance,  has 
graces  of  its  own.  If  we  are  to  promote  the  cause  of  inter- 


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national  peace,  then  we  must  beware  of  making  extravagant  or 
arrogant  claims  for  our  religion,  whatever  it  may  be.  That  was 
the  fatal  and  pathetic  mistake  made  at  the  World’s  Parliament  of 
Religions  at  Chicago  in  1893.  There  we  witnessed  the  spectacle 
of  representatives  of  the  world’s  great  religions  putting  forward 
each  the  claim  that  his  religion  was  the  only  one  qualified  to  be 
recognized  as  a universal  religion  and  when  each  had  come  for- 
ward with  the  claim,  it  honestly  made  the  claim  itself  ridiculous. 
If  we  are  going  to  promote  the  cause  of  international  peace  we 
must  learn  to  practice  the  virtue  of  appreciation.” 

The  Maharajah  of  Burdwan 

His  Highness,  The  Maharajah  of  Burdwan,  speaking 
as  a Hindu,  emphasized  the  fact  that  there  can  be  no  adjustment 
of  political  or  economic  affairs  without  taking  into  consideration 
the  great  spiritual  values  of  humanity.  He  believed  that  if  the 
religions  of  the  world  would  join  hands,  they  could  speedily 
bring  about  a condition  of  affairs  where  human  life  would  be  put 
on  a new  basis  and  war  would  be  banished  from  the  world. 

Buddhism 

Dr.  Tomomatsu,  a Buddhist  from  Japan,  assured  the  con- 
ference that  the  very  essence  of  Buddhism  demands  co-opera- 
tion in  an  enterprise  of  this  kind,  and  that  he  hailed  the  day 
when  it  would  be  possible  for  the  leaders  of  his  own  and  other 
faiths  to  stand  together  against  the  encroaching  materialism 
of  our  time  and  the  philosophy  of  force  upon  which  the  re- 
lationships of  the  nations  is  based.  When  religions  join  and 
friendship  and  brotherhood  become  a possibility,  war  will  be 
banished  from  the  world. 

Protestant  Churches  of  America 

Dr.  S.  Parkes  Cadman,  President  of  the  Federal  Council  of 
the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America,  in  making  the  final  address  at 
the  mass  meeting,  said:  "It  seems  to  me  that,  although  the  hour 
is  late,  the  importance  of  these  great  objects  which  have  just  been 
stated,  to  a great  extent  vindicates  our  staying  here.  Think  of 


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the  offerings  beyond  calculation  which  have  been  made,  the  flags 
which  have  been  hung  over  every  temple  throughout  the  world, 
and  even  in  the  name  of  religion,  on  behalf  of  war.  Think  of  the 
gifts  that  war  has  employed  and  of  the  great  changes  it  has  made 
in  human  life  and  history,  and  then  recollect  that  we  are  here 
seriously  to  propose  to  rob  this  great  instrument  of  its  signifi- 
cance and  dismiss  it  forever  from  the  arena  and  eventually,  by 
the  help  of  God  in  whom  we  believe  as  the  universal  Father,  to 
exterminate  it  altogether. 

"Therefore  I think  we  may  say  without  exaggeration  that 
this  has  been  an  epoch-making  day.  We  are  on  a venture  of  ex- 
ploration. Dr.  Nansen  and  Sir  Francis  Younghusband,  explorers 
of  the  geographical  world,  are  joined  with  us  in  this  exploration 
upon  which  the  religions  are  now  starting.  We  shall  certainly 
find  that  beyond  our  explorations  in  the  realm  of  spiritual  mys- 
tery there  is  still  more  sky,  that  beyond  our  furthest  horizon 
there  are  seas  yet  raging,  of  the  vast  expanse  of  which  we  may 
ever  and  anon  catch  glimpses.  I,  for  one,  speaking  with  enthusi- 
asm of  Mother  East,  am  very  anxious  that  we  should  if  possible 
bring  some  of  our  provincial  faith  and  outlook  into  contact  with 
our  Eastern  people  with  whom  the  whole  business  of  life  is  re- 
ligion. We  are  not  here  to  make  comparisons  but  certainly  we 
must  admit  that  from  the  East  there  have  come  forth  generic 
ideas  around  which  the  best  genius  of  our  western  civilization  has 
from  time  to  time  crystalized.  If  we  hold  successful  conferences 
on  behalf  of  this  definite  object  of  world  peace,  our  group  must 
not  be  deflected  by  theological  discussions.  We  must  not  miss 
our  main  purpose  in  that  waste  and  howling  wilderness  of  specu- 
lation, or  we  shall  end  as  very  many  of  our  fathers  did  by  hating 
one  another  for  the  love  of  God. 

"It  seems  therefore  that  if  we  are  to  carry  out  this  great 
scheme,  especially  in  view  of  the  fact  that  war  is  inbred  into  the 
very  tissues  of  the  nations,  if  we  are  to  strip  this  hideous  monster 
of  its  shroudy  mantle  and  disguise,  if  we  are  to  divest  it  of  these 
freaks  of  imagination  which  have  clothed  it  with  meretricious 
splendor,  we  have  to  get  our  minds  and  hearts  steadily  fixed,  not 
upon  the  face  of  religion,  but  upon  its  eternal  voice  which  is  one 


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of  justice,  love  and  brotherhood  for  all  mankind.  That  religion 
will  survive  which  possesses  the  noblest  ideals  and  is  prepared  to 
make  the  greatest  sacrifices  in  their  behalf.  That  nation  will  sur- 
vive which  will  find  its  mission  and  the  fulfillment  thereof  in 
contributing  the  greatest  quota  to  the  aggregate  of  human  good. 
Therefore,  let  us  re-light  the  torch  and  re-gird  the  loin,  and  tak- 
ing heed  of  nothing  else  as  religionists  pure  and  simple  but  these 
great  principles,  find  our  safety  and  our  strength  in  seeking  peace 
based  upon  justice  and  with  that  monarchy  of  public  opinion  be- 
hind it  which  shall  cause  war  to  become  in  reality  what  it  is  in 
fact,  an  anachronism  in  a world  of  civilized  men  and  women.” 

A Hindu 

Mr.  Das  Gupta  said:  "The  East  must  know  the  West  and 
in  the  West  there  must  be  mutual  appreciation  of  the  East. 
That  will  dispell  the  dark  clouds  of  international  animosity 
which  are  gathering  on  the  horizon  of  the  East.  In  ancient  times 
in  India  peace-makers  were  priests.  Now  our  peace-makers  are 
diplomats.  That  was  not  the  ancient  custom  in  India.  We  used 
to  turn  to  our  sages  and  our  priests.  I am  glad  to  say  that  this 
conference  is  now  going  back  to  the  old  custom.  Kellogg  and 
Briand  and  Lloyd  George  are  not  to  be  the  only  peace-makers. 
The  time  has  come  when  the  religionists  of  the  world  shall  be  the 
chief  apostles  of  peace  and  brotherhood.” 

Another  Viewpoint 

Professor  Dr.  Hauer  of  the  University  of  Tubingen,  Ger- 
many, expressed  the  hope  that  the  conference  might  agree  to  a 
plan  whereby  the  membership  would  be  made  contingent  upon 
official  appointment  by  the  responsible  bodies  of  the  various  re- 
ligions. This  would  make  it  a real  "conference  of  religions.”  He 
also  expressed  the  hope  that  the  discussions  in  the  conference 
would  not  be  limited  to  peace  but  would  include  the  philosoph- 
ical, religious  and  ethical  ideas  of  each  religion  and  that  the  basis 
of  the  fellowship  would  be  on  these  deeper  interests  rather  than  a 
program  of  action  for  peace.  He  stated  that  the  ultimate  aim  of 
the  conference,  in  his  opinion,  should  be  the  establishment  of  a 


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formal  League  of  Religions.  Dr.  Hauer  emphasized  the  fact  that 
if  anything  worth  while  is  accomplished  in  the  struggle  for 
peace,  peace  must  be  considered  as  a result  of  the  establishment 
of  international  and  inter-racial  justice. 

A Brahmin  and  Others 

Mr.  Chandra  Chatterji,  Dr.  Herman  Neander,  Admiral 
Drury  Lowe  of  the  British  Navy;  Lady  Blomfield,  a well 
known  Christian  worker  for  world  peace;  Mrs.  Cranston,  Sir 
Willoughby  Dickinson,  Rev.  Birger  Forell,  Dr.  Frank  Oliver 
Hall,  Mr.  W.  Loftus  Hare,  Miss  Lilian  Hendrick,  Prof.  Herman 
Hoffmann  of  the  University  of  Breslau;  Professor  Lustawski, 
professor  at  the  University  of  Vilna,  Poland;  Mr.  Julien  P. 
Monod,  a Protestant  business  man  of  France;  Mr.  Henry  Wick- 
ham Steed,  the  world-famous  English  journalist  and  for  years 
editor  of  the  London  Times;  Mr.  Cheng  Tcheng,  one  of  the 
younger  Confucianists — all  spoke  in  support  of  the  ideals  of  the 
conference. 

A Service  of  Devotion 

An  order  of  service  for  joint  worship  prepared  by  Dr. 
Robert  E.  Hume,  used  at  the  beginning  of  the  second  session  of 
the  conference,  was  made  up  of  passages  compiled  from  the 
Sacred  Scriptures  of  the  living  historical  religions  and  arranged  as 
an  Antiphonal  Service.  Dr.  Jal  Dastur  C.  Pavry,  son  of  a 
Parsi  High  Priest  in  Bombay  led  in  this  devotional  service.  The 
members  of  the  conference  formed  the  congregation  of  almost 
two  hundred  and  read  responsively  the  passages,  making  this 
unique  service  a high  mark  in  the  development  of  a new  spiritual 
fervor.  It  also  helped  to  cement  the  spirit  of  brotherhood  and 
good-will  which  characterized  all  the  sessions. 

The  Church  Peace  Union 

Dr.  William  P.  Merrill,  pastor  of  the  Brick  Presbyterian 
Church  of  New  York  City,  and  Chairman  of  the  Church  Peace 
Union,  well  summed  up  the  feeling  of  the  group  in  these  words: 


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"It  is  perfectly  obvious  that  the  task  that  is  before  us  is  a very 
difficult  one,  but  a very  useful  one.  Is  there  anything  that  re- 
ligion needs  more  than  to  have  something  given  to  it  to  do  that 
cannot  be  done  by  others?  I am  sure  that  no  one  who  has  gone 
earnestly  into  that  question  can  fail  to  agree  with  me.  In  the 
morning  session  everybody  spoke  with  such  a high  optimism  and 
said  how  much  his  particular  religion  stood  for  peace.  We  stood 
on  a mountain-top  and  got  a long  view.  But  in  the  afternoon  we 
came  down  and  struggled  with  the  jungle  of  details  and  found 
immediately  the  clash  of  different  opinions.  We  began  to  see 
how  we  shall  have  to  add  to  the  vision  of  the  mountain-top  a 
persistent  making  of  our  way  through  the  jungle  of  details  with- 
out dropping  hands,  nor  losing  the  vision  of  the  mountain-top. 
What  we  shall  need  above  everything  else  is  considerateness — (I 
was  told  by  a friend  that  this  was  not  in  the  English  language. 
But  there  is  such  a word  in  the  American  language — ) the  will- 
ingness to  give  and  take.  Someone  said  we  should  be  prepared  to 
make  concessions,  but  to  make  concessions  has  somewhat  of  a 
grudging  sound.  I prefer  appreciation;  we  shall  need  a good  deal 
of  appreciation.  When  it  comes  to  prestige,  we  should  be  more 
eager  to  give  than  to  take,  and  when  it  comes  to  counsels  and  ad- 
vice, we  should  be  more  eager  to  take  than  to  give.  And  then 
also,  we  should  not  water  down  our  opinions  and  come  to  a mini- 
mum of  expression.  To  conciliate  all  this  is  not  an  easy  matter 
but  we  can  do  it.  After  all,  the  best  way  towards  that  uni- 
formity of  motive  we  are  seeking  is  to  keep  moving  to  the  top  of 
the  mountain  of  our  religion.  A well  known  American,  Pro- 
fessor F.  G.  Peabody,  said:  'We  are  all  at  the  bottom  of  a moun- 
tain, round  a very  large  mountain,  but  if  each  man  starts  climb- 
ing from  where  he  is,  his  steps  will  bring  him  closer  and  closer  to 
the  others,  even  if  they  walk  on  different  slopes,  without  seeing 
each  other.  But  after  having  climbed  to  the  mountain-top  and 
thereby  finding  ourselves  together,  we  have  to  find  some  way  of 
keeping  in  touch  with  one  another.’  We  shall  need  the  faculty  of 
just  judgment.  Christ  said,  'My  judgment  is  just  because  I seek 
not  my  own  will  but  the  will  of  Him  that  sent  me.’  Now  that  is 
the  spirit  and  the  only  spirit  in  which  we  can  possibly  do  any- 


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thing.  We  must  be  prepared  to  lay  our  own  wills  down  com- 
pletely, to  give  up  every  thought  of  advantage  for  ourselves  and 
for  our  groups  to  seek  only  the  will  of  God  which  has  sent  us. 
You  who  are  of  the  East  may  feel  perhaps  more  deeply  than  we 
in  the  West  do  the  mystical  beauty  of  bowing  down  in  adoration 
before  that  holy  and  perfect  will  of  God,  and  we  in  the  West 
may  feel  perhaps  more  intensely  than  you  do  in  the  East  the 
glory  of  going  out  to  see  that  that  will  of  God  is  done  and  done 
concretely  and  done  in  a way  that  people  can  see  and  know.  I 
think  that  we  shall  not  come  to  the  true  doing  of  the  will  of  God 
until  we  have  learned  that  these  are  just  two  parts  of  a single 
process  and  that  only  when  each  of  us  has  caught  the  other’s 
spirit  shall  the  thing  be  done.  I hope  that  through  this  move- 
ment we  shall  find  it  possible,  by  the  grace  of  God’s  spirit,  some- 
how to  unite  together  that  sense  of  the  glory  of  bowing  in  adora- 
tion to  the  will  of  God  and  that  sense  of  the  glory  of  going  out 
to  do  that  will  of  God  and  the  belief  that  it  won’t  be  done  unless 
we  do  it.  The  world  will  then  perhaps  be  nearer  than  it  has  ever 
been  to  the  fulfillment  of  that  wonderful  prayer  'Thy  will  be 
done  on  earth  as  it  is  done  in  heaven.’  ” 


The  Future 

The  Universal  Religious  Peace  Conference  is  now  "a  going 
concern.”  Men  and  women  of  good-will  drawn  from  the  world’s 
religions  are  now  banded  together  in  the  greatest  united  enter- 
prise that  has  evoked  the  religious  enthusiasm  of  this  or  any 
other  generation.  There  is  much  to  be  done;  there  are  many 
difficulties  in  the  way,  but  these  are  times  that  demand  great  sac- 
rifices, great  enthusiasms  and  above  all — great  faith.  Nothing 
that  can  be  done  is  beyond  the  power  of  combined  human  en- 
deavor. The  very  fact  that  the  task  is  a gigantic  one  makes  it 
all  the  more  worth  doing.  The  fact  that  it  is  difficult  is  the  reason 
that  it  has  not  been  done  before.  What  the  future  shall  be  no 
one  can  know.  The  one  thing  we  may  be  sure  of — the  great 
world  conference  will  be  worth  just  as  much  to  humanity  as 
those  who  are  sincere,  enthusiastic  believers  in  the  religion  that 
they  profess,  put  into  this  great  enterprise. 


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"I  have  dreamed  sometimes  of  the  unity  of  religions  for 
some  great  humanitarian  purpose  but  I never  expected  to  see  it. 
My  dream  seems  to  be  coming  true.”  These  were  the  parting 
words  of  a great  educator  and  well-known  writer,  Dr.  Theodore 
Reinach,  of  the  College  of  France. 

"War  is  such  a damnable  business,  surely  the  religions  of  the 
world  can  be  mobilized  against  it.  This  conference  looks  as  if  it 
means  business.”  Sir  E.  Denison  Ross,  Professor  of  Oriental 
languages  and  Director  of  the  School  of  Oriental  Studies,  London 
University,  London. 

Dr.  John  A.  Lapp,  Professor  in  Marquette  University,  Mil- 
waukee, Wisconsin,  in  summing  up  the  effect  of  the  Conference, 
congratulated  the  members  upon  the  extraordinary  things  that 
has  been  accomplished  and  especially  upon  the  fact  that  the  Con- 
ference had  set  forth  to  the  world  a declaration  of  purpose  with- 
out a dissenting  voice.  Continuing,  he  said:  "The  fullest  har- 
mony has  prevailed.  At  every  step  the  most  widely  representa- 
tive body  of  the  faiths  of  the  world  that  ever  assembled  has 
found  a cause  in  which  there  is  universal  accord.  From  the  testi- 
mony of  the  leaders  of  all  these  faiths  and  from  their  sacred 
writings  we  learn  that  the  peace  of  mankind  is  basic  in  them  all. 
Our  experience  here  during  these  three  days  should  give  confi- 
dence with  the  same  harmony  of  spirit;  the  same  aspirations  for 
better  things  will  permeate  and  uphold  the  great  Conference 
that  we  have  planned  when  it  shall  assemble.  We  have  wit- 
nessed no  ordinary  event  in  this  beginning  in  connection  with 
which  we  have  been  joyfully  laboring.  This  has  not  been  just 
another  meeting.  The  world  may  not  note  it  and  may  misunder- 
stand what  we  have  done  here,  but  to  us  who  have  participated 
in  the  fellowship  of  good-will,  there  will  be  a growing  recogni- 
tion of  the  significance  of  the  events  of  these  days  as  the  struc- 
ture for  which  we  have  laid  the  foundation  stone  rises  under  the 
hands  of  the  future  builders  into  the  temples  of  our  dreams. 
Dreams,  did  I say?  Yes,  we  have  dreamed  of  a better  world 
where  justice,  charity  and  love  shall  combine.  But  if  I judge  cor- 
rectly we  have  done  more  than  dream.  Realism  has  had  its  place 
to  temper  our  hopes  into  practical  realities.  We  expect  confi- 


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dently  that  what  we  have  done  will  take  deep  root  in  the  minds 
and  hearts  of  men  and  consummate  practical  action. 

"We  have  done  well  to  set  forth  that  this  is  not  a movement 
for  church  unity  or  for  union  of  faiths.  We  ask  no  one  to  give 
up  a jot  or  tittle  of  his  belief  in  the  doctrines  of  his  religion. 
There  is  no  thought  of  a super-church  or  a union  of  faiths  or  of 
the  slightest  alteration  in  the  beliefs  of  any  man.  We  seek  one 
object  alone — peace  and  good-will  among  the  nations  of  the 
earth. 

"He  does  the  cause  a disservice  who  seeks  to  divert  this 
movement  from  its  central  purpose.  Let  those  of  us  who  have 
achieved  so  much  in  harmony  do  our  utmost  to  preserve  it.  De- 
pend on  it  the  enemies  of  peace  will  not  fail  to  attempt  to  divide 
us.  Their  tactics  will  not  be  new.  They  will  accredit  to  our 
plans  purposes  we  do  not  hold,  and  which  collectively  we  have 
condemned.  Some  of  this  will  be  maliciously  done,  some  of  it 
done  in  ignorance.  If  in  the  unveiling  of  the  future  other  ob- 
jects recommend  themselves  to  the  religious  forces  which  will 
assemble  at  our  call,  let  the  circumstances  of  that  time  decide. 
At  this  moment  we  dedicate  ourselves  to  international  peace.  But 
let  us  not  deceive  ourselves  as  to  the  ease  of  the  task. 

"There  will  be  more  than  one  religious  conference  before 
the  religious  forces  of  the  world  are  truly  mobilized.  To  be  sure 
there  will  be  short  shrift  for  war  when  that  time  comes,  but  it 
will  not  come  all  at  once.  The  Conference  of  1930  will  start  the 
flow  of  genial  currents  of  peace,  but  they  must  grow  into  flood 
before  they  permeate  the  mass  of  men. 

"If  those  who  follow  us  are  wise  they  will  see  that  success 
depends  on  making  each  religion  the  nursery  for  the  propaga- 
tion of  peace  in  its  own  fellowship.  Let  it  be  rather  our  plan 
to  help  to  build  foundations  for  co-operation  for  peace.  Let  us 
join  in  the  Locarnos  and  in  the  Kellogg  Pacts,  the  promotion  of 
arbitration,  the  World  Court  and  the  League  of  Nations.  Let  no 
one  have  the  slightest  reason  to  suppose  we  do  not  feel  confidence 
in  the  work  that  is  thus  far  advanced.  We  do  most  to  promote 
the  work  of  these  great  movements  however,  by  building  under 
and  around  them  strong  foundations  and  buttressings,  and  the 


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basis  of  the  spiritual  powers  that  rest  in  our  religion.  Let  us  go 
forward  conscious  of  unity  and  its  great  ends,  strong  in  the 
strength  of  each  other,  with  a passion  to  understand,  and  with  a 
passion  for  justice  that  comes  from  that  understanding.  In  the 
words  of  our  own  great  motto  of  America — 'with  malice  to- 
wards none,  with  charity  for  all,  with  firmness  in  the  right  as 
God  gives  it  to  us  to  see  the  right.’  Let  us  strive  to  make  these 
days  the  beginning  of  a new  effort  for  humanity.” 


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Statement  of  Purpose 

Adopted  September  14th,  1928  at  the  final  session  of  the 
Preliminary  Gathering  of  the  Universal  Religious 
Peace  Conference. 


Peace  is  one  of  the  loftiest  positive  aims  of  united  human 
endeavor.  Spiritual  in  its  very  nature,  and  implicit  in  the  teach- 
ings of  all  religions,  it  was  this  aim  which  inspired  the  Church 
Peace  Union  to  set  on  foot  the  movement  that  has  now  taken 
form  in  a resolve  to  hold  a world-conference  of  all  religions.  Of 
this  conference  the  sole  purpose  will  be  to  rouse  and  to  direct  the 
religious  impidses  of  humanity  against  war  in  a constructive 
world-wide  effort  to  achieve  peace. 

A preliminary  gathering  was  convened  at  Geneva  in  Sep- 
tember 1928  to  consider  the  holding  of  a Universal  Religious 
Peace  Conference  in  1930.  To  this  gathering  came  men  and I 
women  of  all  faiths  from  all  parts  of  the  earth.  T hey  were  united 
in  the  conviction  that  the  state  of  mankind  today  demands  that 
all  persons  of  good-will  in  every  religion  shall  work  together  for 
peace;  and  that,  more  than  ever,  concerted  religious  effort  is 
needed  to  attain  it. 

Even  as  nations  have  been  learning  that  no  one  of  them 
suffices  to  itself  alone,  but  that  each  needs  to  help  and  to  be 
helped  by  others,  so  also  the  religions  of  the  world  will  come  to 
see  that  each  must  seek  to  serve  and  to  be  served  in  the  work  of 
peace,  and  to  go  hand  in  hand  towards  the  common  goal. 

Hence  it  was  resolved  that  a Universal  Religious  Peace  Con- 
ference be  held,  to  put  in  motion  the  joint  spiritual  resources  of 
mankind;  and  that,  without  attempting  to  commit  any  religious 
body  in  any  way,  the  conference  consist  of  devoted  individuals 
holding,  or  associated  with,  recognized  forms  of  religious  belief. 

The  Universal  Conference  designs  neither  to  set  up  a formal 
league  of  religions,  nor  to  compare  the  relative  values  of  faith, 


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nor  to  espouse  any  political,  ecclesiastical,  or  theological  or  social 
system.  Its  specific  objects  will  be: 

1.  To  state  the  highest  teachings  of  each  religion  on  peace  and 
the  causes  of  war. 

2.  To  record  the  efforts  of  religious  bodies  in  furtherance  of 
peace. 

3.  To  devise  means  by  which  men  of  all  religious  faiths  may 
work,  together  to  remove  existing  obstacles  to  peace;  to  stim- 
ulate international  co-operation  for  peace  and  the  triumph  of 
right;  to  secure  international  justice,  to  increase  good-will, 
and  thus  to  bring  about  in  all  the  world  a fjiller  realization 
of  the  brotherhood  of  men. 

4.  To  seek  opportunities  for  concerted  action  among  the  adher- 
ents of  all  religions  against  the  spirit  of  violence  and  the 
things  that  make  for  strife. 

Persuaded  that  this  high  purpose  will  move  devoted  hearts 
and  minds  everywhere,  the  preliminary  gathering  at  Geneva  has 
appointed  a Committee  to  prepare  for  the  Universal  Conference, 
so  that  world-wide  co-ordination  of  religious  endeavor  may  help 
towards  the  full  establishment  of  peace  among  men. 


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ENROLLED  MEMBERSHIP  OF  THE  CONFERENCE 


ABERSON,  MR.  LEVI,  Jewish, 

Member  of  Council  for  the  Rights  of 
Jewish  Minorities, 

12,  rue  des  Pi  tons,  Geneva. 

ABERSON,  MME.  M.,  Jewish, 

Gen.  Sec.  of  League  of  Jewish  Women, 
12,  rue  des  Pitons,  Geneva. 

AFNAN,  RUHI  EFFENDI,  Bahai, 

Student, 

Persian  Colony,  Haifa,  Palestine. 

AGRONSKY,  MR.  GERSHON,  Jewish, 

Press  Correspondent,  Christian  Science 
Monitor;  Daily  Express,  London, 

P.  O.  B.  625,  Jerusalem,  Palestine. 

AGRONSKY,  MRS.  GERSHON,  Jewish, 

P.  O.  B.  62  5,  Jerusalem,  Palestine. 

ALDERTON,  MR.  JOHN  T.,  Christian, 
Company  Director, 

Westmount,  Kingston  Lane,  Southwick, 
Sussex,  England. 

ALI,  MR.  A.  YUSUF,  Islam, 

Indian  delegate  to  League  of  Nations 
Assembly, 

3 Mansel  Road,  Wimbledon,  S.  W.  19 
England. 

ANDREWS,  MR.  C.  F.,  Christian. 

APPASAMY,  MR.  E.  S.,  Christian, 

Vepery,  Madras. 

d’ARCIS,  MME.  C.  G., 

Secretary,  World  Union  of  Women  for 
International  Concord, 

17  Boulevard  Helvetique,  Geneva. 

ARMSTRONG,  MR.  RONALD  A.,  Sufi, 
Editor,  The  Sufi  Quarterly, 

9 rue  Bellot,  Geneva. 

d’ASBECK,  BARONNE  MELLINE,  (Doctor 
of  Letters,  Paris) , Christian, 

Banque  des  Pays  du  Nord,  28  bis,  Ave. 
del  Opera,  Paris. 

ASSOUVILLE,  MLLE.  D„ 

4 rue  Thiers,  Paris. 

ATKINSON,  DR.  HENRY  A.,  Christian, 
Gen.  Sec.  Church  Peace  Union,  etc. 

70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York,  and 
41  Parliament  St.,  London. 


ATKINSON,  MRS.  GRACE,  Christian, 

70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

BALDWIN,  MRS.  E.  F.,  Christian, 

6 rue  Jules  Crosnie,  Geneva. 

BALIZER,  GRAND  RABBIN 
PROFESSEUR  S.,  Jewish, 

Grand  Rabbin, 

6 rue  St.  Leger,  Geneva. 

BAUHOFER,  REV.  O.  S.,  Christian, 

8 rue  Gautier,  Geneva. 

BAYER,  MRS.  P.,  Jewish, 

School  teacher, 

269  W.  11th  St.,  New  York  City. 

BEHRENS,  MISS  ETHEL,  Christian, 

Member  of  Ethics  Committee,  League  of 
Nations  Union;  Secretary,  Quaker  League 
of  Nations  Committee  in  Paris, 

Flotel  Britannique,  20  Ave.  Victoire, 
Paris. 

BENKARD,  MISS  ELSIE,  Bahai, 

132  East  65th  St.,  New  York. 

BENSION,  MR.  ARIEL,  D.Ph., 

Jewish  Mysticism, 

Zichron  Moshe  9,  Jerusalem,  Palestine. 

BENSION,  MRS.  ARIEL,  Jewish  Mysticism, 
Zichron  Moshe  9,  Jerusalem,  Palestine. 

BERRY,  MR.  GORDON  L.,  Christian, 

Gen.  Sec.  of  the  International  Near  East 
Association, 

296  Riverside  Drive,  New  York. 

BIGLAND,  MRS.  EDITH  M.,  Christian, 
Stone  Dean,  Beaconfield,  England. 

BLATCHFORD,  MR.  EDWARD,  Christian, 
Hon.  Director  of  Near  East  Relief  for 
Palestine, 

Near  East  Relief,  Jerusalem,  Palestine. 

BLAIR,  MADAME  MARY,  Christian, 
Chamtesy,  Campagne  Rilliel,  Geneva. 

BLOMFIELD,  LADY,  Christian, 

Director  of  the  Movement  " For  the 
World’s  Supreme  Peace”, 

28  Cheyne  Walk,  Chelsea,  London. 


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de  BOER,  JUDGE  ALEXIS,  LL.D.,  Christian, 
Justice  of  Supreme  Court  of  Hungary, 
1230  17th  St.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C., 
U.  S.  A. 

BRACKETT,  DR.  ELLIOTT,  Christian, 
Orthopaedic  Surgeon, 

1 66  Newbury  St.,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 

BRACKETT,  MRS.  ELLIOTT,  Christian, 
Author, 

166  Newbury  St.,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 

BURDWAN,  H.  H.  THE  MAHARAJAH 
BAHADUR  OF,  Hindu, 

20  Kensington  Gore,  London,  S.W.  7. 

CADMAN,  REV.  S.  PARKES,  D.D.,  Christian, 
Pastor,  Central  Congregational  Church, 
64  Jefferson  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 

U.  S.  A. 

CANDEL,  MISS  NELLY,  Jewish, 

Bucarest,  Bulv.  Elisabeta  8,  Roumania. 

CHAMBERS,  MR.  GEORGE  GAILEY, 
Ph.D.,  Sc.D.,  Christian, 

Prof,  of  Mathematics,  Pennsylvania 
University, 

University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia, 
U.  S.  A. 

CHAMBERS,  MRS.  GEORGE  G.,  Christian, 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia, 
U.  S.  A. 

CHANG,  DR.  CHEN  HUAN,  Confucian, 
President,  The  Confucian  Association  of 
Pekin, 

The  Confucian  Association,  Pekin,  China. 

CHANLER,  MRS.  L.  S.,  Bahai, 

132  East  65th  St.,  New  York  City. 

CHATTER JI,  PANDIT  J.  CHANDRA 
(B.A.-Cantab) , Hindu, 

Director,  International  School  of  Vedic 
and  Allied  Research,  New  York, 

1500  Times  Building,  New  York  City. 

CHILTON,  MR.  CARROLL  BRENT, 
Christian, 

Hotel  Albert,  New  York  City. 

CRANSTON,  MRS.  RUTH, 

c/o  Paget  Agency,  71  West  45th  St., 
New  York. 

CULVER,  MISS  JULIA,  Bahai, 

Director, 

Case  181,  Stand,  Geneva. 


DARD,  MAUL VI  A.  R.,  Islam, 

Imam,  the  London  Mosque,  Representative 
of  Ahmadiyya  Movement, 

Qadian,  Punjab,  India. 

DARDA,  DR.  G.,  Christian, 

Ex- Judge, 

8 rue  de  la  Croix  d’or,  Geneva. 

DAS  GUPTA,  MR.  K.  N.,  Hindu, 

Sec.,  Three-fold  Movement,  Fellowship  of 
Faiths,  Union  of  East  and  West,  League 
of  Neighbors, 

152  West  42nd  St.,  Room  829, 

New  York  City. 

DATTA,  DR.  S.  K„  Christian, 

Sec.,  World’s  Committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A., 
3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

DAVIES,  REV.  GWILYM,  M.A.,  Christian, 
President,  Welsh  School  of  Social  Service; 
Vice-President,  Welsh  League  of  Nations 
Union, 

10  Richmond  Terrace,  Cardiff,  Wales. 

DAVIS,  MRS.  D.  A.,  Christian, 

2 Boulevard  du  Theatre,  Geneva. 

DEXTER,  MR.  ROBERT  C.,  Ph.D., 
Christian, 

Sec.,  Social  Relations  Dept.,  American 
Unitarian  Association, 

25  Beacon  St.,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 

DIONYSIUS,  HIS  GRACE  THE 

METROPOLITAN  OF  WARSAW, 
Christian, 

Metropolitan- Archbishop  of  the  Orthodox 
Church  of  Poland, 

13  Zygmuntowska,  Warsaw,  Poland. 

DICKINSON,  RT.  HON.  SIR 

WILLOUGHBY,  K.B.E.,  Christian, 

Privy  Councillor,  Hon.  Sec.,  the  World 
Alliance  of  Churches, 

41  Parliament  St.,  London,  S.W.  1. 

DOHNA,  COUNTESS  FREDA,  Christian, 
Secretary,  Education  Committee , German 
League  of  Nations  Society, 

Berlin,  W.  30,  Victoria  Luise  pi.  10, 
Germany. 

DICKINSON,  LADY,  Christian, 

41  Parliament  St.,  London. 

DOTY,  MISS  MADELEINE,  Universal, 

Editor,  "Pax  International” , 

1 1 rue  Emile,  Geneva. 


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DOUITCHEFF,  MRS.,  Free  Christian, 
Student,  Sofia  University, 

Editor,  "Posrednik”,  Boulevard  Dondukof 
61,  Sofia,  Bulgaria. 

DRURY -LOWE,  VICE-ADMIRAL  S.R. 
C.M.S.,  Christian, 

42  Hamilton  Terrace,  London,  N.W.  8. 

DUPUY,  M.  PAUL,  Liberal  Christian, 

Prof,  at  the  International  School  of 
Geneva, 

14  rue  Calvin,  Geneva. 

DUSSAQ,  MR.  M.  E„  Sufi, 

Gen.  Sec.  the  Sufi  Movement, 

46  Quai  des  Eaux-Vives,  Geneva. 

DYK,  MR.  J.  VAN,  Christian, 

Veenkade  40,  The  Hague,  Holland. 

EVANS,  MRS.  LYNDEN,  Christian, 

1420  Astor  St.,  Chicago,  111.,  U.  S.  A. 

FALKINER,  MISS  IRENE  K.,  Christian, 
Representing,  The  Bureau  International 
Humanitaire  Zoophile, 

106  Queens  Gate,  London,  S.W. 

FATIO,  M.  GUILLAUME,  Christian, 

62  rue  du  Stand,  Geneva. 

FAVRE,  MME.  G.  B.,  Christian, 

11  Crets  de  Champel,  Geneva. 

FLEMING,  PROF.  DANIEL  J.,  Ph.D.,  D.D., 
Christian, 

Prof,  of  Missions,  Union  Seminary, 

New  York. 

3041  Broadway,  New  York. 

FORELL,  REV.  BIRGER,  Christian, 

Rector  of  Tillinge,  Sweden, 

Tillinge,  Enkoping,  Sweden. 

FRASSAR,  DR.  ADAMIDI,  Christian, 

Doctor  of  Medicine, 

Alexandria,  Egypt. 

FRENCH,  MR.  STUART,  Bahai, 

Member  of  the  National  Spiritual 
Assembly  of  the  Bahais  of 
U.  S.  A.  and  Canada, 

Pasadena,  California,  U.  S.  A. 

FRENCH,  MRS.  STUART,  Bahai, 

501  Bellifontaine  St.,  Pasadena,  Calif., 

U.  S.  A. 

GARDNER,  MISS  LUCY,  Christian, 
Secretary,  "Copec”, 

92  St.  George  Sq.,  London. 


It* 

GETHMAN,  MR.  W.  W„  Christian, 

Gen.  Sec.,  World’s  Committee 
Y.  M.  C.  A.s 

3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

GOULKEVITCH,  MR.,  Christian, 

6 Chemin  Dumas,  Champel,  Geneva. 

GRABERT,  REV.  HERBERT,  Ph.D., 
Christian, 

T heologian, 

Berlin-Lichtenberg,  Frankfurter  Allee 
22  5,  Germany. 

GREGORY,  MRS.  ROBERT,  Christian, 

1632  Prairie  Ave.,  Chicago,  111.,  U.  S.  A. 

GUILLON,  MR.  C.  H.,  Christian, 

Sec.,  World’s  Committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.s, 
3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

HADDEN,  MR.  ALEXANDER  M„  Christian, 
Member  of  Council  of  Brotherhood  of 
St.  Andrew, 

67  Park  Ave.,  New  York. 

HAGEBY,  MISS  LLIND  AF„  Christian, 
Author,  Lecturer, 

7 St.  Edmunds  Terrace,  London,  N.W.  8. 

HALL,  MISS  VIRGINIA,  Christian, 

Student, 

Morgan  & Co.,  14  Place  Vendome,  Paris. 

HALSTED,  MR.  GORDON  B.,  Christian, 
Teacher, 

Lucknow  Christian  College,  Lucknow, 

U.  P„  India. 

HALSTEAD,  MRS.  GORDON,  Christian, 

T eacher, 

Lucknow  Christian  College,  Lucknow, 

U.  P.,  India. 

HAMILTON,  THE  DUCHESS  OF,  Christian, 
25  St.  Edmunds  Terrace,  London,  N.W.  8. 

HARE,  MR.  W.  LOFTUS,  Christian, 

Elder  of  the  Meeting, 

27  Westholme,  London,  N.W.  11. 

HARTMANN,  REV.  HANS, 

Lie.  Theol.  Ph.D.,  Christian, 

Delegate  of  the  International  Fellowship 
of  Reconciliation, 

Foche-Solingen,  Germany. 

HAUER,  PROF.  J.  W.,  Ph.D.,  Christian, 
Prof,  at  Tubingen  University, 

Tubingen,  a.N.,  Germany. 


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HENDRICK,  MISS  LILLIAN, 

Writer, 

82  Kalorama  Circle,  Washington,  D.  C., 
U.  S.  A. 

HENRIOD,  REV.  HENRY  LOUIS,  B.D., 
Christian, 

Gen.  Sec.,  World’s  Student  Christian 
Federation, 

13  rue  Calvin,  Geneva. 

HENRY,  MRS.  P.  S.,  Jewish, 

Zealandia,  Asheville,  North  Carolina, 

U.  S.  A. 

HERTZ,  DR.  J.  H.,  Jewish, 

Chief  Rabbi  of  the  United  Hebrew 
Congregations  of  the  British  Empire, 

48  Hamilton  Terrace,  London,  N.W.  8. 

HOFFMANN,  DR.  CONRAD,  JR.,  Christian, 
Sec.,  World’s  Student  Christian 
Federation 

13  rue  Calvin,  Geneva. 

HOFFMANN.  PROF.  HERMANN, 

Christian, 

Professor, 

Breslau,  Antonienstrasse  30,  Germany. 

HOAGG,  MISS  HENRIETTA  E.,  Bahai, 

Sec.,  International  Bahai  Bureau, 

Case  181,  Stand,  Geneva. 

HOGENDORP,  BARONNE  A.  VAN,  Sufi, 

9 ave.  Gasp  Vallette,  Geneva. 

HOUSE,  MRS.  CHARLES  L.,  Christian, 

99  Claremont  Ave.,  New  York. 

HUGHES,  MISS  M.  L.  V.,  B.A.,  Christian, 
The  Garden  School,  Lane  End,  near  High 
Wycombe,  England. 

HULL,  PROF.  WILLIAM  I.,  A.B.,  Ph.D., 
Christian, 

Prof,  of  International  Relations, 
Swarthmore  College, 

Swarthmore  College,  Pennsylvania,  U.  S.  A. 

HUME,  REV.  ROBERT  E„  M.A.,  Ph.D., 
Christian, 

Prof,  of  the  History  of  Religions,  Union 
Seminary,  and  the  Faculty  of  History  at 
Columbia  University,  New  York, 

Union  Seminary,  New  York. 

INNES,  MRS.  KATHLEEN  E.,  B.A., 
Christian, 

Sec.,  Friends  Peace  Committee,  London, 
The  Peace  Committee,  Friends  House, 
Euston  Road,  London,  N.W.  1 


ISHIDA,  MR.  TOMOJI,  Christian, 

Sec.,  Religious  Work  Dept,  of  Tokio 
Y.  M.  C.  A. 

Tokio  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  3 Mitoshirocho 
Kanda-Ku,  Tokio,  Japan. 

JEZEQUEL,  M.  JULES,  Christian, 

Secretary  General  de  l’  A.U . A.I.E.  et  de 
la  C.U.  C.S., 

3 rue  Desrenaudes,  Paris,  17  e. 

JEZEQUEL,  MADAME  A.,  Christian, 

3 rue  Desrenaudes,  Paris,  17  e. 

JENKS,  MISS  ANNA  B.,  Christian, 

Southern  Pines,  North  Carolina,  U.  S.  A. 

JOHNSON,  MISS  ETHEL,  Christian, 
Secretary  to  Dr.  Atkinson, 

70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

KELLER,  DR.  ADOLF,  Christian, 

Gen.  Sec.  of  the  International  Social 
Institute,  Geneva, 

19  rue  de  Candolle,  Geneva. 

KIRK,  REV.  WALTER  VAN,  Christian, 
Associate  Sec.,  Federal  Council  of 
Churches  of  America, 

105  East  22nd  St.,  New  York. 

LAPP,  DR.  JOHN  A.,  Christian, 

Professor  of  Sociology, 

Marquette  University,  Milwaukee,  Wis., 

U.  S.  A. 

LIBBY,  MR.  FREDERICK,  Christian, 

Exec.  Sec.,  National  Council  for 
Prevention  of  War, 

532  17th  St.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C., 

U.  S.  A. 

LOWENTHAL,  MR.  MARVIN,  Jewish. 

34  Quai  de  Bethune,  Paris  (lv) 

LOWENTHAL,  MRS.  MARVIN,  Jewish, 

34  Quai  de  Bethune,  Paris  (lv) 

LUNN,  SIR  HENRY,  M.D.,  Christian, 

Editor  of  Review  of  the  Churches, 

5 Endsleigh  Gardens,  London,  N.W.  1. 

LUNN,  LADY,  Christian, 

Albany,  Hastings,  England. 

LUTOSLAWSKI,  PROF.  WINCENTY, 
Ph.D.,  M.A.,  Christian, 

Prof,  at  the  University  of  Wilno, 
Jagiellonska  7 m 2,  Wilno,  Poland. 


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LYNCH,  REV.  FREDERICK,  D.D., 
Christian, 

Educational  Sec.,  Church  Peace  Union, 
70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

McCOWEN,  MR.  OLIVER  H„  C.B.E., 
Christian, 

Sec.,  World’s  Committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.s, 
3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

McDowell,  bishop  william  f.,  d.d., 

Christian, 

2107  Wyoming  Ave.,  Washington,  D.C., 

U.  S.  A. 

McDOWELL,  MRS.  WILLIAM  F.,  Christian, 
Washington,  D.  C.,  U.  S.  A. 

MARQUISIO,  MISS  CLAIRE  S., 

Catholic  Sufi, 

Pres.,  the  Geneva  Branch  of  Sufi 
Movement, 

15  Route  Florissant,  Geneva. 

MARTIN,  REV.  ALFRED  W„  A.M.,  S.T.D., 

Ethical  Culture  Movement, 

99  5 Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 

MATHEWS,  MR.  BASIL,  M.A.,  Christian, 
Sec.,  World’s  Committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A.s, 
3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

MATHEWS,  MRS.  BASIL,  Christian, 

3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

MATHEWS,  DEAN  SHAILER,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
Christian, 

Dean,  Divinity  School,  Chicago 
University, 

University  of  Chicago,  Illinois,  U.  S.  A. 

MERRILL,  REV.  WILLIAM  P.,  D.D.,  S.T.D., 
Christian, 

Pastor,  Brick  Church,  New  York; 
Chairman,  Trustee,  The  Church  Peace 
Union, 

112  E.  36th  St.,  New  York. 

MILES,  MR.  HENRY  E.,  Christian, 

Executive  in  business  research, 

780  Prospect  Ave.,  Hartford,  Conn., 

U.  S.  A. 

MILES,  MRS.  MARY  C.,  Christian, 

Economist,  Sec.  of  Conn.  Cossncil  on 
International  Relations, 

780  Prospect  Ave.,  Hartford,  Conn., 

U.  S.  A. 

MILLS,  MR.  MOUNTFORT,  Bahai, 

5 Place  Vendome,  Paris. 


MOENS,  MR.  H.  M.  B„ 

Credit  Lyonnais,  Paris. 

MONOD,  M.  JULIEN  P.,  Christian, 
Companies  Director, 

16  Boulevard  Raspail,  Paris  (7). 

MOTZKIN,  MR.  LEO,  Jewish, 

Pres.,  Actions  Committee  of  the  Zionist 
Organization, 

83  Ave.  de  la  Grand  Armee,  Paris. 

MURRAY,  PROFESSOR  SIR  GILBERT, 
Christian, 

Professor, 

Oxford  University,  Oxford,  England. 

NANSEN,  DR.  FRIDTJOF,  Christian, 
Explorer, 

Lysaker,  near  Oslo,  Norway. 

NATARAJAN,  MR.  P„  M.A.,  L.T.,  Hindu, 
Principal,  Sri  Narayana  Gurukula 
Sivagiri  Mutt,  Varkala, 
c/o  the  International  Bureau  of  Education, 
4 rue  Charles  Bonnet,  Geneva. 

NEANDER,  DR.  HERMAN,  Christian, 
Rector  of  Estuna, 

Estuna,  Sweden. 

NIGHTINGALE,  REV.  THOMAS,  Christian. 
Memorial  Hall,  Farringdon  St.,  London. 

NISHIMURA,  PROF.  KOOGETSU, 

Oomoto  ( Shintoist ), 

Professor, 

24  rue  Bonaparte,  Paris. 

OTLET,  M.  PAUL, 

Director  of  Palais  Mondial,  Brussels, 
Palais  Mondial,  Brussels. 

OUANG,  MR.  ROLAND,  Confucian, 

29  Bould.  G.  Favon,  Geneva. 

PALLANDT,  BARON  PH.  VAN  EERDE,  V. 
T heosophist, 

Eerde,  Ommen,  Holland. 

PAVRY,  DR.  JAL  DASTUR  C.,  Ph.D.,  M.A., 
Zoroastrian, 

Curzon  Hotel,  Mayfair,  London. 

PAVRY,  MISS  BAPSY,  M.A.,  Zoroastrian, 
Curzon  Hotel,  Mayfair,  London. 

PENNOYER,  REV.  CHARLES  H.,  Christian, 
Head,  Social  Welfare  Dept.,  Univcrsalist 
General  Convention 

176  Newbury  St.,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A. 


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PICKARD,  MR.  BERTRAM,  Christian, 

. Sec.,  Friends’  Geneva  Centre, 

Taconnerie  5,  Geneva. 

PLIMPTON,  MR..  GEORGE  A.,  LL.D., 
LHD.,  Christian, 

Publisher ; Treas.,  Church  Peace  Union, 
70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

PLIMPTON,  MRS.  GEORGE  A.,  Christian, 
70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

PORRITT,  MR.  ARTHUR,  Christian, 

Editor,  The  Christian  World, 

Clock  House,  Arundel  St.,  Strand, 
London. 

RAMSAY,  MR.  ARTHUR,  Christian, 

2107  South  St.,  Washington,  D.  C., 

U.  S.  A. 

RAMSAY,  MRS.  ARTHUR,  Christian, 

2107  South  St.,  Washington,  D.  C., 

U.  S.  A. 

REELFS,  MONS.  J.  D.,  Christian, 

Sec.  Gen.,  Federation  Abolitionists 
Internationale, 

5 Ave.  de  la  Foret,  Geneva. 

REGAMEZ,  PASTEUR  GUSTAVE, 
Christian, 

Federation  des  Eglises  Swedenborgiennes, 
12  Quai  des  Eaux  vives,  Geneva. 

REINACH,  PROF.  THEODORE, 

Reformed  Jewish, 

Professor,  College  de  France;  Membre  de 
l’  Institut  de  France, 

Paris,  2 Place  des  Etats  Unis,  France. 

RICHARDS,  MISS  J.  E.,  Christian, 

Lecturer, 

The  Wyoming  Apts.,  Washington,  D.  C., 
U.  S.  A. 

ROOT,  MISS  MARTHA  L.,  Bahai, 

Journalist, 

c/o  Mr.  Roy  C.  Wilhelm,  104  Wall  St., 
New  York. 

ROSS,  SIR  E.  DENISON,  Christian, 

Prof,  of  Oriental  Languages,  School  of 
Oriental  Studies,  London, 

School  of  Oriental  Studies,  London, 
Finsbury  Circus. 

ROSZCZYCKI,  MR.  GEORGE,  Christian, 

Sec.  to  His  Grace  Metropolite  Dionysius, 
Warsaw,  13  Zygmuntowska,  Poland. 


ROUTLEY,  MR.  JOHN,  Christian, 
Accountant, 

5 Surrenden  Road,  Brighton,  England. 

SABBAG,  MRS.  MABEL  E.,  Bahai, 

3 Square  Thiers,  Paris. 

SAMS,  MR.  H.  W.,  Christian, 

Business  Manager, 

5 rue  Massot,  Geneva. 

SANDERSON,  MISS  EDITH  L.,  Bahai, 

48  rue  Raynouard,  Paris. 

SAGNIER,  HON.  MARC,  Christian, 

Paris,  France. 

SCHATZMANN-PETERSON,  MR.  O., 
Christian, 

11  route  Florissant,  Geneva. 

SCHINDLER,  MR.  FREDERICK,  Christian, 
J Ave.  E.  Pictet,  Geneva. 

SHANKAR,  PANDIT  SHYAM,  Hindu, 

Hon.  Sec.,  Temple  of  All  Religions, 

Thos.  Cook  & Sons,  London. 

SHIBATA,  DR.  T.  H.,  Oomoto  (Shintoist), 
Journalist, 

Tokio,  Suginami-machi  Asagaya  780, 
Japan. 

SILVA,  REV.  A.  DA,  Christian, 

Superintendent  of  the  Methodist  Church 
in  Portugal, 

12  5 rua  Quental,  Porto,  Portugal. 

SMITH,  REV.  DR.  EVERETT,  Christian, 
Rector,  the  American  Church,  Geneva, 

3 rue  Daniel  Colladon,  Geneva. 

SMITH,  MR.  FRED  B.,  Christian, 

Chairman  of  Executive  Committee  of 
World  Alliance  for  International 
Friendship  through  the  Churches, 

70  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York. 

SMITH,  MRS.  FRED  B.,  Christian, 

20  Ridgeview  Ave.,  White  Plains, 

New  York. 

SOOFEE,  MR.  A.  Q.,  Islam, 

Assistant  Imam,  The  London  Mosque, 

63  Melrose  Road,  London,  S.W.  18. 

SOUTHWORTH,  MISS  A.  H.,  Christian, 
Southern  Pines,  North  Carolina,  U.  S.  A. 

SPILLER,  MR.  G.,  Ethical  Culture, 

Hon.  Sec.,  Ethical  Church,  London, 

41  Hamilton  Road,  London,  N.W.  11. 


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STANINAKI,  DR.  E.,  Christian, 

Doctor  of  Medicine, 

23  Boulevard  de  Ramleh,  Alexandria, 
Egypt. 

STANNARD,  MISS  J.,  Bahai, 

International  Club,  Geneva. 

STEED,  MR.  HENRY  WICKHAM, 
Christian, 

Editor,  Review  of  Reviews,  London, 
Lansdowne  House,  Holland  Park,  London, 
W.  11 

STEELE,  MR.  PAUL  H.,  Christian, 

Secretary  to  Dr.  Atkinson, 

41  Parliament  St.,  London,  S.W.  1. 

STOLTE,  MR.  E.  MEYER,  Christian, 

3 Chemin  de  l’Escalade,  Geneva. 

STOLTE,  MRS.  E.  MEYER,  Christian, 

3 Chemin  de  l’Escalade,  Geneva. 

STOREY,  MISS  J.  D.,  Bahai, 

Founder  of  Quo  Wadis  Bookshop  and 
Library, 

7 rue  de  l’Universite,  Geneva. 

SUGIMURA,  DR.  YOTARO,  Confucian, 
The  Secretariat,  The  League  of  Nations, 
Geneva. 

SUTHERLAND,  REV.  ROBERT,  Christian, 
United  Free  Church,  Manse,  Kingussie, 
Scotland. 

STRONG,  MR.  TRACY,  Christian, 

Sec.,  World’s  Committee  of  Y.  M.  C.  A'.s, 
3 rue  General  Dufour,  Geneva. 

TCHENG,  MR.  CHENG,  Neo-Confucian, 
Maison  Attinger,  30  Bd.  St.  Michael, 
Paris  (6e). 

TCHENG,  MR.  YULAN,  Confucian, 
Secretariat  of  the  League  of  Nations, 
Chez  Gohl,  2 Place  de  la  Fusterie, 
Geneva. 


TOMOEDA,  PROF.  T„  Shintoist, 

Prof.  Imperial  University,  Tokio, 

Tokio,  Hongo-ku,  Akebano-tyo  24, 
Japan. 

TOMOMATSU,  PROF.  E.,  Buddhist, 

Prof.  Keio  University,  Japan, 

Goetherstr.  10,  Heidelberg,  Germany. 

VERKADE,  MR.  WILLEM,  LL.B., 

Liberal  Christian, 

Leyden  International  Bureau, 

Brigittestraat  16,  Utrecht,  Holland. 

WATT,  REV.  T.  M.,  Christian, 

Minister  of  Scottish  Church  in  Geneva, 
114  route  Florissant,  Geneva. 

WEEN,  MR.  SUOFONG,  Confucian, 
Secretariat  of  the  League  of  Nations, 

The  Secretariat,  The  League  of  Nations, 
Geneva. 

WILLIAMS,  REV.  T.  RHONDDA,  Christian, 
194  Dyke  Road,  Brighton,  England. 

WILSON,  MR.  ALEXANDER  C.,  Christian, 
c/o  Friends  House,  Euston  Road,  London. 

WILSON,  MRS.  EDITH  J.,  Christian, 

Elder  in  Society  of  Friends, 

c/o  Friends  House,  Euston  Road,  London. 

WREN,  MR.  M.  F„  Christian, 

Hon.  Sec.,  Ethics  Committee,  League  of 
Nations  Union,  London, 

Reform  Club,  Pall  Mall,  London. 

YASUMA,  MR.  NORIKATSU,  Buddhist, 

The  League  of  Nations  Association  of 
Japan, 

Nakadori  13,  Marunouchi,  Tokio,  Japan. 

YOUNGHUSBAND,  SIR  FRANCIS, 

K.C.S.I.,  K.C.I.E.,  Christian, 

Lieut.  Colonel  (retired). 

Currant  Hill,  Westerham,  Kent,  England. 

YOUNGHUSBAND,  MISS,  Christian, 

Currant  Hill,  Westerham,  Kent,  England. 


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